She's been here too long, entirely too long without her father coming to find her. After the first two weeks, she's finally accepted the fact that he's probably not going to be showing up to save her. She's never been on her own before, never even had slumber parties away from her own house, so all of this living in the barracks by herself isn't ( Read more... )

Tim hasn't been able to get his and Cissie's brief interlude with White Eyes out of his head, and while he's sure that was half of the point of the man-boy-thing's cryptic answers, knowing that doesn't actually help.  He's a detective and a scientist.  He likes to know how things work, and why they work, and there never had been any kind of ( Read more... )

It doesn't get any warmer or brighter as the day - or night - goes on. But after a while, a light appears out there in the darkness, different from the gleaming lights of animal eyes. It's a candle flame, burning an improbably clear gold, and bobbing steadily closer through the trees ( Read more... )

Waking up in the Woods for the first time is never a pleasant experience, but this time may be just a bit more unpleasant than most. The tangled branches overhead block out the sky, and most of the light - it could be midnight or high noon, but this part of the wood doesn't seem like it would notice the difference either way. It's bitterly cold ( Read more... )

(  damon salvatore | dark woods )

Things hadn't exactly calmed down in the barracks, but Ruby was tired of being the one that snuck in and out of the place. She'd toured the woods, she'd slipped into the shadows, and now she was just plain old bored ( Read more... )

( dean winchester | surrounding walls of the barracks )

It's just around dusk when Katherine wakes up, wondering who had decided it was a good idea to spike her drink with vervain. Admittedly, Katherine has woken up in more peculiar places than this, but this had to take the cake for the one she wasn't expecting. Looking around, she frowned, because while she likes the occasional trip to the woods, this ( Read more... )

The day after the carnival, Murphy wakes up shivering. She's in her cabin, in her bed. It's disorienting, that's for damn sure, on top of the fact that aches from head to food and feels like she's going to puke. Her head starts pounding in time with her too-fast heartbeat as soon as she tries to move.

What happenedShe groans, curling in on herself ( Read more... )

( claire bennet | just inside the barrack's gates )